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It Is No Trick: Updating Software

Do not delay in refreshing outdated software; dangerous vulnerabilities could abound.

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Creating Zero-Trust-Enabled Cloud Environments

The DoD is affecting the top commercial cloud providers to produce what the military needs regarding zero-trust components in its future joint warfighting cloud.

The Department of Defense is starting to examine how it will enable zero-trust cybersecurity in its cloud environments. Credit: Credit: Staff Sgt. River Bruce, USAF, Air Combat Command

Strengthening the Magic of Passwords with Multifactor Authentification

A password is repeating something you typed in the past to identify yourself in the future, but ill-intentioned actors can obtain these with increasing ease. Technology came to the rescue, sort of.

As hackers get better at bypassing security measures, especially passwords, more steps have to be added to secure data online. Credit: rzoze19/Shutterstock

CISA Steps Into School Security

The agency is hosting an inaugural summit to examine cyber and physical security for the nation’s schools.

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) director Jen Easterly speaks at CISA Headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, in August 2021 when she took over as leader of the agency. CISA is moving into the examination of school cyber and physical safety, through a new summit in November. Credit: CISA Photo by Benjamin Applebaum

The Future of Military Satellite Communications Starts Now

Advancing, improving and sustaining military capabilities requires immediate and long-term solutions.

Two terminal dishes assist Army space soldiers of Alpha Company, 53rd Signal Battalion (SATCON) at the Wideband Satellite Communications Operations Center, Fort Detrick, Maryland. This facility provides Alpha Company controllers increased capabilities to control the communications payloads and communications transmissions of the Defense Satellite Communication System and Wideband Global Satellite (WGS) constellations. Credit: U.S. Army Garrison - Fort Detrick

Cybersecurity Awareness Month

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Cyber Operators’ Dreaded Question: "What Do You Do?”

The fear and mental health effects of a cybersecurity career.

In a time when the United States faces a nationwide mental health crisis, the most important step is to ask for help. Credit: Chanintorn.v/Shutterstock

CISA’s New Binding Cyber Directive Takes Aim at Federal Networks

The federal government must better account for its digital enterprises and vulnerabilities.

CISA’s new binding operational directive mandates federal agencies to begin identifying all digital assets on their networks as part of the start of their vulnerability enumeration processes.

C2 Superiority in an Era of Technological Competition

JADC2 can only be achieved with revolutionary technologies.

Two MH-60S Seahawk helicopters fly by the USS Carl Vinson in the Pacific Ocean in January 2017. The aircraft carrier deployed to the Western Pacific as part of the U.S. Pacific Fleet-led initiative to extend the command and control functions of the 3rd Fleet into the region. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Sean M. Castellano

The Challenge of Finding the Best Approach for Funding Functional IT

You get what you pay for.

The Air Force is leading efforts to create a data-driven method called combined joint all-domain command and control, or CJADC2. It’s a DoD concept that will connect data-centric information from all branches of service, partners and allies, into an internet of military things, making information accessible anywhere, anytime for quick decisions on the battlefield. Credit: Staff Sgt. Timmethy James